Crowther and Westerman mysteries

An intricate historical novel about a forbidding country estate and the unlikely forensic duo who set out to uncover its deadly secrets.

Cumbria, England, 1783. The tomb of the first Earl of Greta should have lain undisturbed on its island of bones for three hundred years. When an extra body is discovered in the ancient crypt, however, Gabriel Crowther and forthright Mrs. Harriet Westerman travel to the Lake District to investigate. Gabriel Crowther's family, marked by its own bloodied legacy, brought the Gretas' land long ago. His brother was hanged for murdering their father, the...